Geophysics in the Affairs of Man: A Personalized History of Exploration Geophysics and its Allied Sciences of Seismology and Oceanography describes many of the key and intriguing developments which took place within several major fields of geophysics. This book is composed of nine chapters that focus on the geophysical enterprise as an interplay of technical, social, and economic factors. After a brief overview of geophysics activity before the World War I, this book goes on the period of the so-called ""golden days"" of exploration geophysics. The succeeding chapter deals with the exploration geophysics during the global war, particularly the classical seismological activity during this time. These topics are followed by discussions of the geophysical activities from 1945 to 1960, as well as the introduction of oceanography field. Other chapters cover the interaction between geophysics and ecology, as well as OPEC during the period of 1970s and early 1980s. The final chapters consider the status and nature of geophysical exploration industry. This book will prove useful to geophysicists, historians, and researchers in the allied fields.

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Information

Publisher

Pergamon

Year

2013

ISBN

9781483278483

Topic

Physical Sciences

Subtopic

Geology & Earth Sciences

Front Cover
Geophysics in the Affairs of Man: A Personalized History of Exploration Geophysics and its Allied Sciences of Seismology and Oceanography
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
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Prologue
Chapter 1. Some Antecedents to the Modern-day Profession of Geophysics Through World War I
Chapter 2. Geophysics Comes of Age—The Roaring Twenties and the Depressing Thirties
Chapter 3. Geophysicists at War—1939–1945
Chapter 4. Reversion to Peacetime, 1945–1950
Chapter 5. The 1950s—A Burgeoning Era of Geophysics
Chapter 6. Science in Government and Government in Science—the 1960s
Chapter 7. Geophysics Interacts with the Environmentalists and OPEC—the 1970s and the Early 1980s
Chapter 8. Geophysics as a Business—Then and Now
Chapter 9. Geophysics As They Saw It
Appendix A: Significant Events in the Evolution of Geophysical Service, Inc. and its Offshoot,Texas Instruments, Inc
References
Name Index
Subject Index
About the Authors